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View synonyms for corporeity

corporeity

[ kawr-puh-ree-i-tee ]

noun

  1. material or physical nature or quality; materiality.


corporeity

/ ˌkɔːpəˈriːɪtɪ /

noun

  1. bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality


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Word History and Origins

Origin of corporeity1

1615–25; < Medieval Latin corporeitās, equivalent to Latin corpore ( us ) corporeal + -itās -ity

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Example Sentences

If the body be the composite of all the qualities together with matter, this totality of qualities will constitute corporeity.

That strange and beautiful psychology which he employs, with its evanescent delicacies, has not sufficient corporeity.

It is, however, plain that a sets forth the Divine knowledge of man in his first rudiments of corporeity.

If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal."

The pious wish of the ancients was sanctity, the pious wish of the moderns is corporeity.

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